FARC disarmament mission attacked in southwest Colombia: Police

Unknown assailants attacked a United Nations-led mission that sought to retrieve a weapons cache by demobilized FARC guerrillas in southwest Colombia on Sunday, according to the police.

The attack, which was later confirmed by the UN, took place in Caloto, Cauca, National Police Colonel Edgar Orlando Rodriguez told newspaper El Tiempo.

One policeman was left injured after extra police units were able to deter the attack and remove the UN officials, disarmed FARC guerrillas and policemen from the site of the attack.

The group was attacked by a number of individuals carrying rifles, so our men — the Carabineros specifically — repelled the attack and succeeded to stop the aggression and remove the Mechanism personnel.

A number of illegal armed groups are active in the area around Caloto. Rodriguez blamed the ELN, Colombia’s last-standing guerrilla group, for the attack.